Sermon
Stay Under the Blood Until Morning Comes
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Welcome to the Rheem Sound Church of God podcast.
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Wherever you're listening from, we hope you are blessed by
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today's message. We're going to the Book of
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Exodus chapter number. 12 and I would.
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Like to begin reading here and then.
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Skipping just a little and reading a bit more about this
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Passover that took place and Acts of Exodus 12 verse 12 says
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for I will pass. Through the land of Egypt on
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that night and will. Strike all the 1st.
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Born in the land of Egypt, both man and beast.
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And against all the gods. Of Egypt.
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I will execute judgment. I am the Lord now, the blood.
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Shall be assigned for you. On the houses.
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Where you are. And when I see the blood, when I
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see the. Blood.
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Remember that old song? Christ our Redeemer died on the
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cross, died for the Sinner, paid all it.
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All. Who receive him need never.
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Fear for He will pass will Passover you When I see the
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blood, I will Passover. You and the plague shall not be
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on. You to destroy you when I
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strike. The land of Egypt.
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Then we go down to verse #21 when?
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Moses gives instructions, and Moses called for all the elders
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of Israel and said to them, pick out and take lambs for
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yourselves according to your families, and kill the Passover
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lamb. And you shall take a.
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Bunch of hyssop, dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and
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strike the lentil and the two doorposts with the blood that is
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in the. Basin and none of you.
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None of you, none of you shall go out of the door of his house
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until morning. I want to speak today on this
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thought. Stay under the blood, stay
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under. The blood till morning comes.
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Father in the name of. Jesus.
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Lord, we've had a wonderful worship experience here.
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And Lord, we've heard a message and an interpretation.
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God that has assured us. Of your presence, God, and even
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when things seem difficult, God, how great.
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And how mighty you are. And even the things.
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That plagued us over a week. God now face the power of the
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Holy Spirit. And never can win against God.
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We just pray, Lord, now for the special anointing of your Spirit
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on this message and on the communion that will follow.
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Here for your glory and your honor, and we praise you for it
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in Jesus name, Amen. You may be seated. 2 weeks ago I
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preached on losing an hour and last.
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Week I preached on. On an invitation to an ARC
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encounter. And both of those messages
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toward the end begin to focus on the coming of Jesus.
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And I want to do the same thing again today.
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Interesting thing, a little side note to last week's message on
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an invitation to an ARC encounter.
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A little kind of humorous thing, but yet it was a blessing.
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And that is I was standing at the door back there greeting
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people, and Kelsey Robbins came and was stood in front of me to
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greet me. And she was.
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She was. Grinning and sort of laughing
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and. She said, Pastor, I just want to
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tell you the first time I came to this church, her mother, of
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course, Tina had been after her to get her.
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To come to. Church and so she finally.
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Came to. Church to satisfy her mother and
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she said you preached on Noah and the ark.
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And she said I laughed. She said I sat there and laughed
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and said that didn't happen. And she said this is reason I
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don't even. Want to go to church?
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Because of this kind of stuff. And she stood in front.
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Of me and she said she said I'm. Laughing today for a different
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reason. And you know what?
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She's in the Ark. With us now, so praise God, it's
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a holy laughter. Now, Kelsey.
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And it was a little more with that story, but it blessed my
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heart. And she laughed at me.
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I thought, what? You laughed at me, She laughed
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at me. And she's still living.
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No, just kidding about that. But but it was serious, she
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said. That didn't happen.
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But thank God, what the blood of Jesus Christ.
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Can do. For each and every one of us,
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this is. The writings and of.
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Course these five first. Books of the Bible, The
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Pentateuch, can we hear? Moses and the Bible speaks of
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Moses in Hebrews 11/28 and says by faith he kept the Passover
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and the sprinkling of blood lest.
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He who? Destroyed.
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The first born should touch them.
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And we know that there were somewhere, it was over 400 years
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that they were in Egypt, but the children of Israel were for
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hundreds of years they were slaves.
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They were in bondage. And there was all kinds of
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attempts to get them out of that captivity and bondage.
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And none of them worked. And even when God used Moses to
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bring plagues on the land, there were 9 plagues that did not
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work. There was.
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Water turned to blood. There were frogs in the land,
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there were lice, there were flies, there was disease,
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livestock, there were boils on their bodies.
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Locusts covered the. Land Darkness 9 Plagues and none
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of them brought deliverance. It took the 10th one which
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involved the blood of the lamb in our In other words, to become
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free from captivity. It took the blood of the lamb.
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Can I say to you today that it still takes the blood of the
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Lamb? Not one of those of that day,
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but John said in chapter 1 and verse 29 of his Gospel.
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He said the next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and
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said, Behold the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the
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world. So as it took the blood of the
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Lamb, then it takes the blood of the Lamb.
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Now first Peter 118 says, knowing that you were not
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redeemed with corruptible things like silver or gold from your
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aimless conduct received by tradition from your Father's,
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but with the precious blood of Christ as of a Lamb without
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blemish and without spot. As the old song says, there is
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power, power, wonder, working power in the blood of the lamb.
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There is power, power, wonder, working power in the precious
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blood of the Lamb. And there's still power today in
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the blood of the Lamb of God and the only way we ever find
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forgiveness and redemption. And we sing about it earlier and
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we'll sing about it again. The blood of Jesus paid the
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eternal price for the redemption of our souls.
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In fact, it was actually during the celebration of this event,
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Passover, hundreds of years later, that Jesus instituted
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what you and I are going to do today in taking the Lord's
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Supper. Listen to what it says in
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Matthew 26, verse 26. And as they were eating, Jesus
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took bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to the
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disciples, and said, take, eat this.
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This is my body. Then he took the cup and gave
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thanks and gave it to them, saying, Drink from it, all of
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you, for this is my blood of the new covenant, which is shed for
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many for the remission of sins. But I say to you, notice what
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comes next. He said, I say to you, I will
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not drink of this fruit of the vine from now on until that day
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when I drink it. New with you?
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In my father's Kingdom. So Jesus said that even the the
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Lord's Supper, even the bread, even the, the wine, the juice,
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those elements that we take, he said, they not only remind you
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of what I will do for you on the cross, but they also remind you
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that I'm coming again. And when I come again for the
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first time, I'll have this meal again with you, but not until I
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come again and we're in the Father's Kingdom.
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Are you looking forward to it? The next great I said.
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The next great Lord's Supper is going to take place around the
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marriage Supper of the Lamb and the Table of Glory.
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Can you give him praise? In the House of the Lord, but
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He. Also said to them that.
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This event will mark. A brand new day for you.
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In fact, he says in Exodus chapter 12/2, he says this month
Exodus 12 chapter mention
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shall be your beginning of months, it shall be the first
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month of the year to you speak to all the congregation of
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Israel, telling them or saying on the 10th of this month every
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man take for himself a lamb according to the House of his
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father, a lamb for a household. He said on this occasion, when
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this takes place, everything becomes new.
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You start, it's the beginning of a new year.
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How many are glad to know that when the blood is applied to our
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hearts and life, everything starts over.
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We get a new life. The Bible says we are born
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again. We're born of the Spirit of God
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and the water of heaven. We are born again, people of God
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and all begins new. Paul said that all things pass
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away and everything becomes new. Our whole life becomes brand new
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when the blood is applied to our hearts and lies.
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And I want you to notice that every house was included.
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It's interesting there that in that verse he said speak to all
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the congregation of the Israelites, the all the
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congregations. Now there were many families,
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right? There were many homes.
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There were lots of them. There were there were maybe
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1,000,000 1/2 or even up to 2 million of them.
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So there were lots of houses, but he said I speak this to the
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congregation. So every house put together made
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the congregation of the House of Israel.
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Brothers and sisters, you come here as individuals and you will
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take this this cup and you will take this bread and you will
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take it as an individual. But you are part of the
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congregation. You are a part of the church.
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You are related to your brother and your sister.
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And it's this blood of Jesus Christ represented in this
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little cup that made you one. And now you're my brother.
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You're my sister and. I'm yours whether you like.
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It or not I was here to notice though.
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For this to take place, the Bible said the Lamb had to be
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without. Blemish and the Lamb had to be
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slain living. The lamb could not save.
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But dying the lamb could save the lamb alive the blameless.
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Lamb. The one that they picked out of
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the flock. The one that was so.
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Perfect. Couldn't do anything for anyone.
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Alive but when the lamb. Died could save first
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Corinthians 15 three, Paul said. I delivered to you first of all,
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that which I. Also received.
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That Christ died Christ died for our sins, according to.
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The scriptures, he also says in First Corinthians 57, Therefore
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purge out the old leaven that. You may be a new.
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Lump, since you truly are unleavened for indeed Christ.
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And what does he call him? Our Passover?
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He goes back to Exodus 12. He goes back to that time and
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says there was a Passover and there was a blemish, spotless
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lamb sacrifice. And that lamb, the blood had to
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be shed. That lamb had to die.
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And now Christ, he's our Passover and he was sacrificed
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for us. You know, there are people in
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our world, lots of them, that will say, oh, we think Jesus was
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a great teacher. We like the things he taught,
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like the lessons that he gave people.
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We like the things he did, but they don't want anything to do
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with the cross. But my brother and sister, the
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only way Jesus could ever save anybody was to go to the cross
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of Calvary. The cross is still the central
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message of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
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Don't ever forget it. You could not have been saved by
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the good teaching of Jesus or the good life of Jesus, but you
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could be saved by his death and the shedding of his blood on the
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cross of Calvary. Are you thankful for that today?
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And it was not enough even that the blood was shed.
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It had to be. Applied.
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The blood had to be applied. Jesus shed his blood on the
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cross, but it has to be applied by faith.
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Jesus. When we get saved, when we ask
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Christ to come into our heart in a spiritual sense, Jesus
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sprinkled our hearts with his own blood.
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We receive the benefits of Calvary's cross.
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It's not a physical sprinkling, It's not somebody standing up
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with a little sprinkler, But what it is, it's a faith
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transaction where the blood of Jesus Christ that was shed on
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the cross is sprinkled on our conscience, sprinkled on our
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heart so that we can be forgiven of all our sins and have have a
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brand new life. Have you been sprinkled with the
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blood of Jesus? Have you been covered by the
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blood of the Lamb? Have you been covered?
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And then? The Bible says that blood.
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Had to be applied. It had to be applied.
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Tom, do me a favor. Go over there to that door, if
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you will. That's either one of them side
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door, that one. Either one.
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OK, so the Bible says. That that.
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Blood was shed that. Blood was sprinkled on the.
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Lentil. Where's the lentil, Tom?
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OK, so the lentil. And it said also.
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On the side post right? Show them the side post.
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OK, so if anybody doesn't. Know what a lentil is?
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He knows a lentil. Is that top right?
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That top piece and the side post?
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Thank you. Where is the one place the blood
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was not sprinkled on the bottom on the floor?
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Why? Because you never you never, you
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never walk on the. Blood you honor.
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The blood of Jesus Christ, you have covering by the blood of
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Jesus, but it's far too precious.
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And so you don't put blood on the floor, you put blood on the
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top and the sides because the blood of Jesus is the holy
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blood. It is a sanctifying, saving
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blood. They're people today that are
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walking on the blood of Jesus. Jesus today to their own hurt
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folks, honor the blood, give God thanks for the blood, be
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thankful that blood of Jesus has shed, but never, never walk on
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the blood of the Lord Jesus. It is too precious for that.
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The instructions were also given that not only was the blood to
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be sprinkled, but the lamb was to be eaten.
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The lamb that was what was slain had to be eaten.
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And the Bible gave specific instructions.
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The whole of the lamb, the whole lamb, it was not to be boiled in
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water. It was to be roast in fire so
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that it could remain because all of the lamb had to be consumed.
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In other words, everything about the lamb, everything about the
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lamb. And when we think about that and
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we think of Jesus being the Lamb of God, folks, we need to feed
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on Jesus everyday. I said we need to feed on Jesus,
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the whole lamb, not just the part we like, but all of the
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Lamb, all of the Lamb. Everything about Jesus, we need
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to be feeding on it. Because He's His word is His
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self and Himself is the very food that we need in our lives,
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not just what we like. We take His yoke and we feed on
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it. We take His cross and we feed on
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it. And one day we'll take His crown
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and we'll feed on it. Thank God.
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Thank God for Jesus today. Amen.
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Hallelujah. Then he said when you eat it,
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you eat it with bitter herbs. And bitter herbs were obviously
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a. Reminder.
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Reminder of the bitterness. That they went through.
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In Egypt, the. Hard times they went through.
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How many know? That Jesus tells us that if we
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live godly for him, we will suffer some persecution.
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There'll be some hard situations that come and you may go through
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some bitter experiences, but thank God, thank God they won't
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last forever. Do you hear what I'm saying?
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They're just a reminder of where we were.
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But thank God, we've been saved by the blood.
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We've got royal blood flowing in our spiritual veins today.
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We've got a new name and glory. Hallelujah.
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We've got a home with the Master, the Savior Church.
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We can rejoice because everything good that God could
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possibly give us. Comes through the power of the
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cross, then he even. Instructed them how to go about
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this meal. How do you eat a meal like that?
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Strange command, verse 11. Of that same chapter 12 says
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thus. Shall you eat it with a?
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Belt on your waist. And your sandals on your.
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Feet and your staff in your. Hand, so you shall eat it in
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haste. It is the Lord's.
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Passover, and I think most of you.
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Probably realize in that day they they wore long robes.
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They wore long robes and so. The belt was like what they used
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to gird it up and so when you got ready to walk, when you got
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ready. To go somewhere you didn't.
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Let your robe flow, but you tied it up so your legs would have
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mobility. And so God is giving them, he's
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giving them instructions and and he says, I, I want you to be
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ready. I want you to be ready because
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your deliverance is coming and I want you to be ready.
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I want you to be able to leave when the time comes.
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I don't want any delay. So he said when you eat this
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meal, think about it, because those people in that day didn't
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eat like we do. As we know in Bible times that
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was. Reclining at.
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At, at A, at a lower level table and people would, would sort of
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lay on their sides or whatever and, and sort of get up to the
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table. He, but he tells them like these
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stand up tables that you go to in some of these restaurants
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today, it's you go to the stand up table and you keep your
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sandals on because in that day, again, wearing those sandals,
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they would take them off and their feet would be washed and
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so they'd be barefoot. He said, I don't want you to be
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barefoot. I want you to have your robe on.
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I want you to have that thing tucked in and I want you to have
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your shoes on your feet. I want you to be ready get your
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staff in your hand because I'm bringing you out and when I
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bring you out out. I want you to be ready.
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I want time is running out. He's what God is saying this is
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about to happen and I'm going to call you out of bondage.
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Brothers and sisters, can I say something to you spiritually
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today and that is I'll continue the same practice spiritually
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speaking, always be ready, be ready.
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Have your loins girded with truth.
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Amen. Have on the breastplate of
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righteousness. Have your feet shod with the
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preparation of the gospel of peace and be ready to leave
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because Jesus. Jesus is going to call his
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church. I said Jesus is going to call
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his church. And you don't want to have to
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start getting ready then. You want to be ready.
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So when the Lord calls, when the trumpet sounds, you're ready to
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go. Are you ready to go?
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Today, Amen. He said I want you to be ready
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to leave at a moment's notice. That's not very comfortable to
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think that way, that. You're to eat.
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You got to have this me. You've got to have a staff at
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your hand, shoes on your feet, and you're ready like you're
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ready to. Run and you're.
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Kind of gobbling your food like your mom told you not to.
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Because. He wants you to be.
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Ready, he said, to leave at a moment's notice.
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But here's my main point in this message today, and it's found in
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verse 22. And you shall take a bunch of
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hyssop, dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and strike the
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lentil that you saw, the two doorposts with the blood that is
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in the basin. And none of you shall go out of
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the door of his house until morning.
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Don't go out until morning. The Hebrew root word for
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Passover means to skip. To skip.
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So God is saying when I see the blood I will the death Angel,
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the Angel of death, or however you want to phrase that will
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skip over your house. How many want to be skipped
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over? He said.
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But but what what I've got to have you do is I've got to have
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you apply the blood and you've got to strike.
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The lentil in the 2. Doorposts.
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And then you stay in that house. Don't you go out.
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I don't care who's at the door once you eat that evening meal,
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because it's going to be at midnight when this death
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presence comes through the land. It's going to be at midnight.
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But from the time you eat that meal till the next morning, you
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don't leave your house. You stay covered by the blood.
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Because if you go out that door, you're no longer covered by the
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blood. I want you to understand that as
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long as the blood was left in the basin.
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It was of no effect, no effect. It was merely blood that had
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been shed. The blood had power to save only
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when it was lifted out of the basin and sprinkled.
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There was no salvation just because the lamb died.
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There was only salvation when the blood of the lamb was
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applied. There's a Jewish story or a
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legend. And we'll say.
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It's a parable because there's don't know that it happened or
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not. But if you take.
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It as a as a parable of of a. Girl, the oldest in the family,
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because that's what the. Bible said that when this.
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Angel of death would come through the oldest, the first
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born in the house would die and this little girl was was sick
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and wasn't feeling well and and she was worried because she was
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the first born in the family. And she said to her dad, she
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said had has the blood been applied to the door?
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I heard that we had to have the blood applied or the first one
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would die. And she and he said to her,
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honey, it's taken care of. I had one of my top people in my
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one of my servants, top servant take care of that.
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You don't have to worry about it.
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But she did, and she kept worrying about it, and she'd go
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back to dad again, call him in the.
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Room and Dad are you? Sure that the blood is I said my
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servant would never dishonor me by not doing what I said.
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You don't have to worry about it.
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And finally she said, would you? Would you carry?
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Me out. Dad and and and carry me out to
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the door and so that I can. See with my own.
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Eyes that the blood is there and he said OK I'll do that and he.
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As he carried her out. Opened the door, he looked and
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the blood was not there, was not there and quickly he took the
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basin himself and took the the the bunch of.
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Hyssop and began to. Sprinkle the lentil and the
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doorpost just before midnight. Now whether that happened or
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not, you can see the spiritual principle that we can't trust
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anybody else if you. Thinking mom's going to save
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you? You've got it.
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Wrong. You think?
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Well, Dad's praying for me, so I'm OK.
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No, you're not. Now, I'm glad Dad is praying for
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you, but it's your salvation at stake.
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Amen. Before their deliverance, Before
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anything would happen, they went through all kinds of
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difficulties and trials and anger and wrath.
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But remember, as a child of God, you're not appointed to wrath.
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That's good news. Paul says in first.
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Thessalonians 59 For God did not appoint us to wrath, but to
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obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.
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Does that not make you feel better?
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That you that's you're not, you're not?
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Facing the wrath of God. You don't.
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Want to face the? Wrath of God.
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And the Angel of death that came through only knew sin.
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That's all the Angel knew. So when that Angel came through,
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as long as there was, there was sin.
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There's going to be. Death as long as there's.
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Sin. How many know that death is a
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result of sin? The Bible said when sin is
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finished. It brings forth death.
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So where there was sin, there was.
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So this presence of death goes through.
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The only thing it knows is that wherever there's sin, there's
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got to be death. But when you come.
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To a place. When you come to a house and you
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see that that house has the blood of the lamb on its lentil
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and doorpost, don't you dare touch anyone inside that house
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because someone paid for the price of the sin of the lives on
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the inside. Something has been done,
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something has happened, and there is no room for death now
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because I have forgiven that sin and you won't touch it.
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Amen. The only difference is the
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covering of the blood of the lamb.
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Aren't you glad you're covered today?
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Let me finish this. Message that slain Lamb.
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Paid the debt, took the. Place of the person inside.
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Because there was only one. That was supposed to.
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Die and it was the first born, but when the Angel, the death
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Angel, or whatever death presence you want to say, looked
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at that blood, it said. The judgment's already been
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executed on this House. Somebody's already.
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Died for this sin. Remember when I see the blood,
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when I see the blood, I will pass over you.
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Somebody has already or something has already died, and
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so I see that. There's nothing for me to do
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here. Because.
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Someone, something has already paid.
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The price with blood and has already died there's no use to
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have death here because death already happened here but it
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wasn't your death, it was his death.
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Jesus on the cross. It was the Lamb of God 2000
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years ago folks, he took my place.
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He took your place. He is a God that is full of
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mercy and grace and love and cares enough about every one of
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us that He paid the price. In fact, can I tell you this?
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Instead of you being condemned, he was condemned and Jesus was
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condemned for your sin. So you don't have to be.
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He took it all. Give Him praise before.
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I have a fit here. Hallelujah, full of love and.
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Mercy. God is so full of love and
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mercy. He doesn't.
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He doesn't condemn us, He redeems.
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Us because he was condemned for us.
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That's a hard pill to swallow. Jesus was condemned.
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It was famous Scripture. You've heard it once or twice.
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Think about it. John 316 For God so love the
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world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever
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believes in him should not perish, but have everlasting
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life, for God did not. Send.
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His son into the world. To condemn the world.
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But that the world through. Him might be.
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Saved He desires. Let me say it.
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This way His desire is not to condemn us for our sins.
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But to condemn our sins for us, let me say it again.
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He does not desire. To condemn.
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US. For our sins.
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He. Desires to condemn our sins for
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us. Separate the sin from us.
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He is willing. To do that.
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Instead of condemning us. Condemn.
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The sin and verse 18 says. He who believes in Him is not
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condemned. Why?
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Because Christ was already condemned.
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But he who does not believe. Is condemned already because he
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is not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
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You know if you have received Jesus Christ as your personal
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Savior, you have His blood on the doorpost of your heart, and
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you can look confidently to a wonderful future that God has
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for you. But I give you this final word,
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stay under the blood till the morning comes.
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Simple command, everything is done.
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Just stay under the covering of the blood.
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The enemy can't touch you there. You're safe.
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Don't go out. I don't care what party you're
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being invited to. God said stay under the blood.
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I don't care what salesman's got a something for you to look at
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out there. Don't go out for you don't want
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to do that. Follow me, right?
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Yeah, but I got a. Chance at this hot date?
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After dinner tonight, you better.
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Leave the hot date alone. And you better stay under the
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blood. Stay.
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If you're going on a date, do it before supper.
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Because once you get that blood covering, you ain't going
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nowhere you. Staying under the blood.
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The only safe place in the world is to be covered by the blood of
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Jesus Christ, because all they can take.
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From you, then is your earthly. Life.
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But you have an eternal life with God in the heavens.
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There's a new body without. Oh, without.
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Suffering or pain or anything. Hallelujah, Hallelujah.
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So stay. Under the blood, stay in.
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That that house, there's a New Testament principle there as
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well, and that one is in John 15 when Jesus said what he gave the
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parable of the vine and the branches of the allegory, he
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said in John. 15-4 Abide in me. And I in you.
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As a branch cannot bear. Fruit of itself unless it abides
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in the vine. Neither can you, unless you
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abide in me. I am the vine.
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Who's the vine? And he said, who's the?
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Branches. You and I are the branches.
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And he who abides in me. And I in him.
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Bears much fruit for without. Me, you can do nothing.
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And if anyone. Does not abide in me.
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Does not stay in me. He's cast out.
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As a branch is withered and they gather them, throw them into the
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fire, and they burn the only listen.
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I'm going to get very simple. It's so simple.
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Stay in the house under the blood.
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Stay covered. And abide in the vine.
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And what does that mean? Well, first of all, the vine
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that bears fruit, the branches don't.
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The branches have the fruit on them, but the strength comes
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from the vine, right? Not the branches.
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The branches can do nothing on their own.
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Cut them off. They do nothing.
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But if you. Stay in the vine.
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That's all that's required. Just stay connected to Jesus.
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Did you hear me? I want to simplify everything
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for every believer. In here you're you're, you're.
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Number one really your only. Challenge is just to stay in the
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vine. Don't get disconnected, don't
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walk away. Just stay in the vine.
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Stay in Jesus because everything you need is in.
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Jesus. I said just stay in the.
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Vine you want. How, how do I, how do I live
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this Christian life? Stay in the vine.
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Stay connected to him. Don't let anybody talk you out
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of the house. Don't let anybody chop your limb
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off. Just stay there.
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Just say, God, I'm going to serve you.
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I don't care if I go through good, bad or indifferent.
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I'm going to serve you good, bad and ugly.
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I'm serving you. I'm stuck on Jesus and Jesus is
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stuck on me. I'm in the vine.
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I'm a branch and everything I need, He's got it.
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He's got everything. Everything that I need so.
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Stay under the. Blood and then the last
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scripture that would you come. Hebrews chapter 3 Beware
Hebrews 3 chapter mention
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brethren, verse 12 Hebrews 3 Beware, brethren, lest there be
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in any of you an evil heart of do you have that Scripture?
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There you go. I want you to see it.
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Beware brethren, lest there be an any of you, an evil heart.
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And first of all, he said brethren, so he's not talking to
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the world, lest there be an any of you, an evil heart of
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unbelief in departing from the living God.
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But exhort one another daily while it is called today, lest
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any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
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For we've become partakers of Christ.
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We have become partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning
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of our confidence steadfast to the end.
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It's all about abiding. Just Pastor, you're making me
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nervous. You don't need to be nervous.
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Just stay in Jesus. But whether or not, I don't know
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where everybody's theology is on this, but I'm going to tell what
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the Bible teaches here, OK? Because I know too many people
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in my lifetime and in my pastoral role here even who were
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but are not now. They were, but they aren't.
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They got detached. Something drew them away.
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I don't mean a church, I don't mean that at all, but the world
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somehow going out from under the covering of the blood no longer.
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And he said if if you don't abide in me, he said, you're
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like. A branch that's withered, and I
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don't really think that's. So much to talk about eternal
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fire. Just saying you're.
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You're basically worthless. You just.
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Throw them on a throw them on a heap and burn them out because
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it's they're not any good because they're not connected.
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You want to stay connected to Jesus.
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That's it. You don't need to be connected
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to me, but you need to be connected to Jesus.
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And that needs to mean more to you than anything else I said
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that needs to mean. More to you than anything.
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Else in your world that you stay connected to Jesus Christ for
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us. He's coming and you stay under
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the covering of the blood of the Lamb.
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Amen. Bow your heads with me.
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I want to 1st give an opportunity here this morning.
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I trust that this message is spoken to you in some way to
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help you realize all of us without Christ or under
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condemnation. See that even though that this.
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Curse of Death came on. Egypt.
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It applied to those people living in Goshen.
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Even the people of God had to follow what God said.
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That's the only the only thing that really made any difference
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that night was the blood applied.
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And so when we sit here today, there's no difference in any of
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us. None of us are better than the
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other. Give me a break.
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None of us are. Only difference is if we're
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covered by the blood of Jesus and our sins have been forgiven
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because of that. Thanks for joining us today.
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